Psalm 35:14 I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.

English Standard Version
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.

New American Standard Bible
I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

King James Bible
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I went about grieving as if for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning a mother.

International Standard Version
I paced about as for my friend or my brother, and fell down mourning as one weeps for one's mother.

American Standard Version
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please : as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

Darby Bible Translation
I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.

Young's Literal Translation
As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.

Cross References

Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Psalm 38:6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Ecclesiastes 12:3
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

35:11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictions. We ought to mourn for the sins of those who do not mourn for themselves. We shall not lose by the good offices we do to any, how ungrateful soever they may be. Let us learn to possess our souls in patience and meekness like David, or rather after Christ's example.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. behaved—literally, "went on"—denoting his habit.

heavily—or, "squalidly," his sorrowing occasioning neglect of his person. Altogether, his grief was that of one for a dearly loved relative.